OHR Press Releases

The Peace Implementation Council discussed the results of the Mostar Reform Commission yesterday in Brussels.Senior Deputy High Representative Werner Wnendt informed the PIC that agreement on a broad range of issues had been reached in the commission, making it possible for Commission Chairman Norbert Winterstein to make clear recommendations to th [...]

PLIP agencies (OHR, OSCE, UNHCR and CRPC) are announcing today the PLIP Statistics for the month of October. The overall implementation ratio stands now at the same level of 91 per cent in both the Federation of BiH and the Republika Srpska, while the implementation ratio in Brcko District stands at 96 per cent. As at end October, 199,913 habitable [...]

Speaking at an investment conference in the City of London, the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Tuesday called on international investors to learn from the success of foreign banks in Bosnia and Herzegovina and enter the market as the difficult reforms of the last few years begin to open up real investment opportunities. Comparing BiH to Pol [...]

The High Representative has appointed John McNair as international prosecutor to the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption within the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The BiH Minister of Justice, Slobodan Kovac, and the OHR’s Senior Deputy High Representative in charge of the Rule of Law Pillar, Bernard Fassier, this afternoon co-chaired the first meeting of the Executive Board responsible for co-ordinating the efforts of the BiH authorities and the International Community in setting up the Court of BiH’s Specia [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Thursday welcomed the announcement by NATO’s defence ministers that Bosnia and Herzegovina had made significant progress on defence reform, and will therefore be considered for membership in NATO’s Partnership for Peace at the organisation’s Istanbul Summit scheduled for the end of June next year. BiH will [...]

Bosnia and Herzegovina has reached a moment in its postwar history when critical choices will determine whether or not the people of this country are to enjoy a prosperous future inside Europe, the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, said on Wednesday. The question facing the citizens of BiH is whether, and how quickly, the dream of a prosperous, [...]

Following the news that the CoM has once again failed to appoint a Director of the ITA, High Representative Ashdown and Ambassador Michael Humphreys, Head of the EC Delegation in BiH, said: “The delay in appointing a Director of the ITA is totally unacceptable. This is an explicit requirement of the European Union’s recently published Feasibility [...]